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Coming up on News 7-
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The ongoing sage of Elian Gonzalez is NOT over yet- A court rules he CAN stay in the U-S at least for now.
We'll have a live report.
Millions of infant swings are being recalled because they could be dangerous.
Plus a hair raising debate over Virginia's prisoners-
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[Talent=Jean]

[Cuba-Boy]

A federal court rules that Elian Gonzalez stays in the U-S- at least for now- It's a victory for his Miami relatives.
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Bobbi Harley is outside the family home in Miami with the latest-
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[SUPER=01-Manny Diaz/Gonzalez Family Attorney;]
[SUPER=01-Greg Craig/Father's Attorney;]
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((With a huge crowd of people still milling around the Little Havana home where the 6-year-old boy is staying...
Attorney General Janet Reno left -- the way she came-- without a deal.
The battle over Elian Gonzalez has now moved to the courts. A federal judge says Elian must stay here--probably for a few more days.
Manny Diaz/Gonzalez Family Attorney
I believe the appellate court has spoken about the seriousness of our appeal. We will pursue it, and we will win this appeal.
The court order capped off a day of defiance for Elian's Miami relatives.
In less than 24 hours, the family met with the Attorney General, publicly announced their defiance of her, then doled out a home video of Elian saying he wants to stay in the US. The tape enraged Elian's father.
Greg Craig, Fathers Attorney:
The exploitation of his son must end Its now obvious that patience on all sides is wearing thin.
Today-- even Cuban-American entertainers Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan, urged people to remain calm.
Gloria Estefan/Entertainer:
We stand together for many reasons: firstly, to assure this community and the world that we want no violence.))
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[Julian-Bond]

A national civil rights leaders says Elian Gonzalez will have a big advantage if he goes back to Cuba-- He will never experience racism in America.
This was just one of many topics Julian Bond -- discussed tonight at Roanoke College.
Joy Sutton was there.
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(( Hundreds turned out at Roanoke College to meet Julian Bond first hand.
A man who has spent 3 decades fighting inequality and racism and marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.
Bond says going back to Cuba has its benefits for little Elian Gonzalez.
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((HE WILL HAVE A FREEDOM THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE HERE AND THAT TO KNOW THAT HIS ETHNICITY WILL NEVER EVER BE A BARRIER TO HIS AMBITION))
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A problem he says many African Americans and other minorities still face today.
Bond told the crowd there is still a in need for affirmative action -- especially when many of the nations leaders are abandoning the ideals of the civil rights movement.
Bond, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the N-A-A-C-P, says the confederate flag over South Carolina's state house is just another example of the racial divide in this country.
He says the South Carolina legislature needs to make sure that flag comes down.
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((WHENEVER A FLAG WHICH TO BLACK PEOPLE IS LIKE THE SWASTIKA TO JEWS IS PUBLIC ALLY DISPLACED AT THE TOP OF THE STATE CAPITOL. IT JUST CAN'T BE. SO WE BADLY WANT IT TO COME DOWN WE DON'T OBJECT TO IT BEING IN MUSEUMS, OR IN PEOPLES HOUSES OR EVEN ON THEIR BUMPER STICKERS))
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But Bond says the struggle for equality must be a collective effort among all Americans -- and there can never be enough people fighting for civil rights.
Joy Sutton, News 7, Salem.))

[BWX-Technologies]

The biggest employer in Campbell County is growing.
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B-W-X Technologies is expanding its Naval Nuclear Fuel Division near Lynchburg.
The governor's office says that will mean 320 new jobs over the next three years, and a 41-million dollar investment.
B-W-X-T pays an average salary of almost 18 dollars an hour.
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[Goodyear]

The Goodyear plant in Danville is also expanding.
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It will create 50 new jobs in Southside.
The announcement came today following Governor Jim Gilmore's approval for a 200 thousand dollar grant to help in the expansion.
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((BARRY DUVAL/SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND TRADE: AND THE MAJORITY OF THAT MONEY WILL BE INVESTED IN A WORKFORCE TRAINING FACILITY TO HELP ENSURE THEY WILL GET THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED TRAINING POSSIBLE.))
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[VO-NAT]

The expansion is a 50 million dollar investment.
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[Job-Fair]

Meanwhile in Martinsville, some 600 people were looking for jobs.
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Many who attended a job fair are former textile workers still trying to find stable work.
This was an opportunity for them to meet with the nearly 60 employers and hope for a break.
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((KEN FREEMAN/FORMER PLUMA WORKER: I'VE BEEN VERY SATISFIED WITH TALKING WITH THE PEOPLE WE'VE PUT IN SEVERAL APPLICATIONS AND I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A BETTER CHANCE IN GETTING A BETTER JOB SO WE FEEL GOOD.))
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[VO-NAT]

City officials anticipate more job fairs in the future.
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[Pit-Bulls]

Sheriff's deputies say people cannot adopt 90 pit bulls that may have been trained to fight -- The dogs are staying in their Franklin County neighborhood.
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Sheriff's deputies have charged one of the owners with dogfighting, but they say the pit bulls still have food, shelter, and water.
They say so far, this is not a case of animal cruelty.
Kyle Pearce owns 19 of the dogs.
He says the treadmills and training diets taken as evidence had nothing to do with dogfighting.
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((THAT'S ALL THE NUTRITION ... FIFTEEN POUNDS OVERWEIGHT.))
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[VO-NAT]

Four pit bulls are penned up in the animal shelter as evidence.
Public safety officials say the others are not dangerous to residents because, they say, most pit bulls attack each other, not people.
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[Budget]

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Americans could see 150-billion dollars in tax cuts- The Senate joined the House today approving a budget that includes those cuts.
The one point-83 trillion dollar budget heads to the President-
He doesn't like it though- saying it defies common sense.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Washington, DC; ]

Earlier today the President says his impeachment did not make sense. He said it was wrong- and he's glad he fought it.
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((THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT I MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE THAT FOR WHICH I AM DEEPLY REGRETFUL. BUT I THINK THE AVERAGE PERSON REVIEWING THE WRECKAGE WHOULD SAY I PAID FOR THAT AND I SHOULD'VE WE ALL PAY FOR OUR MISTAKES.))
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[OUT Q=for our mistakes.]
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The President says he does NOT plan to ask his successor for a pardon.
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Millions of baby swings are being recalled tonight.
Details are still ahead on News 7 at Eleven.
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[VO-NAT]

And find out why more than one hundred Virginia inmates say they'll spend months in isolation to stay out of these chairs.
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[Sports-Preview]

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((Hey sports fans this is what's happening tonight, The Chicago Cubs come from behind to beat the Atlanta Braves The N-H-L's Eastern Conference playoffs opened tonight with a game in Philadelphia, Steve Mason drops in on the Virginia Cavaliers spring practice on the eve of their Spring Football game and Rick Mast talks Winston Cup Racing with Mike Stevens.
All that and more coming up in sports.))
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[Inmate-Hair]

The state says it's a health risk and a security risk.
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And for 125 Virginia inmates, it takes all the fun out of being in prison.
It's long hair.
The inmates who have refused to comply with a November grooming policy by getting hair cuts and shaves have been put on disciplinary segregation.
Some say they've spent four months in isolation to protect their hair.
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((RON ANGELONE/VIRGINIA CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR: WE SURE DON'T WANT PEOPLE OUT IN THE GENERAL POPULATION IN WHICH, IF THEY COULD, AND IF THEY DID TRY TO ESCAPE, AND DID ESCAPE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE A CORRECT PICTURE OF THEM BECAUSE THEY COULD CHANGE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.))
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[VO-NAT]

Some of the inmates who are protesting the hair cuts say it's for religious reasons.
But a 1998 court decision says such grooming policies do NOT interfere with their rights of religious expression.
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[Powerline]

A high-voltage protest is shaping up in Bland County thanks to the S-C-C staff recommendation that a new power line is needed in southwestern Virginia.
Marya Jones has the story.
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(( Wolf Creek Indian Village has been steadily growing in popularity as a Bland County tourist attraction.
It features replica wigwams, hiking trails and a new history museum.
But it may get one new feature it didn't bargain for: A 765-thousand kilovolt power line.
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((TONI CLEMONS: IT SCREWS IT UP BIG TIME.))
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Toni Clemons is a guide who demonstrates Native American crafts at the park.
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((TONI CLEMONS: IF YOU WANT TO BE TAUGHT PRIMITIVE WAYS, YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP IT AS PRIMITIVE AS POSSIBLE. PUTTING POWER LINES IN AIN'T GOING TO KEEP IT PRIMITIVE.))
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Wolf Creek is in the path of the proposed power line that, yesterday, the S-C-C identified as cheaper and less environmentally harmful.
It runs from Wyoming, West Virginia, to the Jacksons Ferry substation in Wythe County.
Another proposed route -- one favored by A-E-P -- runs from West Virginia to the Cloverdale substation near Roanoke.
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((ROBERT BANE/POWER LINE OPPONENT: THE POWER COMPANY HAS SHOWN TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THIS AND THEY SEEM TO BE DETERMINED TO ROLL OVER US AGAIN.))
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Robert Bane says the S-C-C's recommendation means his family farm may soon include a power line.
It's been in the family for four generations and already has one smaller power line running through it.
He says the new line would cut a path the width of half a football field through his land.
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((ROBERT BANE: IT'LL BE JUST TOTAL DEVASTATION FOR THIS FARM. THIS IS A 900 ACRE FARM THAT'S BEEN IN THE FAMILY FOR 100 YEARS.))
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((THE SCC WILL HAVE THE FINAL SAY AFTER AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING IN RICHMOND STARTING MAY 1ST. IN THE MEANTIME, BLAND COUNTY RESIDENTS SAY THEY'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT THIS BATTLE ... THAT'S BECOME A POWER STRUGGLE IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.))
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[Swing-recall]

Millions of infant swings are being recalled after six children died.
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[VO-NAT]

Graco Children's Products says the children apparently slid out of the swing because the restraint systems were not used properly or parts were missing.
Seven-million swings were sold from the 1970's until January 1998.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the swings should not be used until parents get the new safety restraints offered by Graco.
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[Nurse-Imposter]

A woman who worked as a nurse for six months in a local doctor's office last year has been indicted for practicing without a license.
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The woman worked in an UN-conventional medical office called "To Life."
It's a one-woman practice run by Doctor Joan Resk, an Osteopathic Physician.
She says Jodie King claimed she was an L-P-N when she was hired in February of last year.
King was indicted in Roanoke last week for "unlicensed practice of nursing" and "unlawful use of a medical title."
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[Lewis-Gale]

Lewis-Gale Clinic is leaving it up to the patients to locate their doctors who resigned over management problems.

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As their contracts expire and the doctors are legally allowed to talk, they want to make sure their patients know where to find them.
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((DR. KEVIN KELLEHER/FAMILY PRACTICE: IT'S VERY HECTIC FOR ME BECAUSE I'M ONE OF THE DOCTORS THAT HAD TO MOVE RIGHT AWAY, SO I LEFT MY BACK CREEK OFFICE TO COME OVER HERE.))
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After 15 years with Back Creek Dr. Kelleher joined Primary Care Associates at the Lee-Hi location where he's been for about a week.
Some patients have already found him.
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((ED STANLEY/PATIENT: I FEEL LIKE HE'S A REAL GOOD FRIEND AS WELL AS A DOCTOR.))
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The Primary Care Associates physicians at Lee-Hi are renting the building from the Clinic until August and then they'll either stay there or build a new facility nearby.
Dr. Kelleher says he hopes all his patients will find him.
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[ANCHOR=Jean]
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Still ahead on News 7 at Eleven, the controversy over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemmings didn't end with a D-N-A test.
We'll have the latest.
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And you have to look down instead of up, but archaeologists say they've found a long-lost pyramid.
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[Jefferson]

Two months after a panel of experts announced that Thomas Jefferson "most likely" fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, the debate rages on over whether that's true.
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Ceremonies at Jefferson's gravesite today helped commemorate the 257th anniversary of his birth.
But another group, led by local author Thomas Sheehan, held its own celebration today.
Sheehan's putting together his own panel of experts to re- examine the Jefferson- Hemings controversy.
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((THOMAS SHEEHAN/AUTHOR- HISTORIAN: IT'S NOW TIME TO LAY THIS MATTER TO REST. PLEASE ALLOW MR. JEFFERSON TO REST IN PEACE.. I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD ALL DO.))
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Sheehan says the original findings were based more on money and political correctness than they were on facts.
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[Video]

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A Royal pyramid thousands of years old is discovered in Egypt.
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It is tonight's video of the day.
The four thousand year old pyramid belonged to a queen.
A French expedition team discovered the Pyramid while working in an ancient royal cemetery south of Cairo.
It is significant because exploers also found pyramid text- special prayers inscribed on walls to protect the dead-

Until this discovery such texts had only been found in pyramids of Kings- the only ones whose immortality was guaranteed.
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[S-Avalanche]

The game between the Salem Avalanche and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans was rained out.
The game will be made up April 15-th as a doubleheader beginning at 6. Both games will be 7 innings.
Salem hosts the Pelicans tomorrow night at 7 at Salem Memorial Stadium.

[S-MLB]

The Chicago Cubs capped a three game sweep of Atlanta yesterday with a 3 to 2 victory.
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[SUPER=03-Chicago, IL/FOX SPORTS; :]

Bobby Cox checking the action from the dugout.
Trailing 1 to nothing, Atlanta's Eddie Perez sends this pitch to left field for a single scoring Bobby Bonilla and the Braves tied the score at 1 in the fourth.
[SUPER=35-Atlanta/2/Chicago/3/;]

The Braves would break the tie in the top of the sixth. Perez singles again this time to left field scoring Trenidad Hubble to make it 2 to 1 but the Cubs come from behind to win it 3 to 2.
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An aerial view of Tropicana Field.
Chicago's Frank Thomas sends this line drive shot into left field scoring a run to make the score 5 to 4 White Sox in the top of the fifth.
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The White Sox tied the game in the 9-th then Tampa's Greg Vaughn sends this pitch on a rope to left field scoring Kevin Stocker and the Devil Rays win it 6 to 2 in 12.
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[ANCHOR=Roy]

[S-NHL]

The first round of the N-H-L's Eastern Conference playoffs opened tonight.
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In Philadelphia, The Flyers hosted the Buffalo Sabres.
Philly got on the board in the first Keith Jones makes the move and scores the goal and the Flyers took the 1 to nothing lead at the 14:56 mark.
[SUPER=34-Philadelphia/3/Buffalo/2/;]

Daymond Langkow assisted on that goal then later in the first period Langkow gets out on the break away and scores with the back-handed shot to make it 2 to nothing and Philly wins it 3 to 2.
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[S-UVA]

UVa's spring football game kicks off tonight at six at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville. Steve Mason says expect to see some option and some new faces.
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((Spring cleaning, yeah, the UVa grounds crew is primping and pruning the Klockner field for the game. Thursday, UVa football also introduced new and fresh spring faces like quarterbacks Bryson Spinner and Matt Schaub.
((BRYSON SPINNER:))
((MATT SCHAUB:))
Incumbent Dan Ellis will play in the spring football game after missing two weeks with a separation of his non throwing shoulder. Defensively there is a solid linebacking corp with Donnie Green returning. Cornerback is a question mark, hopefully former UVa hoopster Chezley Watson can help.
((CHESLEY WATSON:))
Former Fleming star John St. Clair sure has come from the RVD to the NFL, the All-American center will be drafted this weekend, but could play center or guard as a pro.))
((JOHN ST.CLAIR/UVA ALL-AMERICAN CENTER:))
((STEVE MASON:))
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[ANCHOR=Roy]

Rick Mast talks racing with Mike Steven.
More later on Mornin.

[S-Mast]

Headaches have been the order of the new century for area Winston Cup favorite Rick Mast.
Rick has been with two teams, missed two races and even broken two ribs.
He recently told Mike Stevens that in all honesty, he hasn't been competitive since 1996.
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